Al_4_ISU
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Ankeny and Huxley are basically attached at this point. If Ames had grown to the south as much as it's grown to the north and west the past 30 years, it would be one unbroken urban area already.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
They did. They come to Ames in '26, and then in '27 the game finally won't be played (unless we both make CCG). It will be 5 years without Farmageddon in Manhattan. A lot of KSU folks aren't real thrilled about it. This is nothing but a boon for us.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Check back in 10 years. There's about 5 miles of real open country between the south end of Ames and the northern most Des Moines suburb. It's not yet, but it will happen in my lifetime.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
We're all going to be in the same giant ass conference when the SEC and Big 10 raid the ACC in a few years anyhow.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
I could live in Ames again. It's only 40 minutes to downtown Des Moines, and while Des Moines isn't a truly big city, it's really urban for it's size (metro around 800K). But I'm a small town guy. I grew up on a farm between a town of 150 and a town of 20ish. I live in a town of 3900 currently. It takes an incredible level of isolation for me to feel truly isolated.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
That’s what I like about those places. You get that classic “college town” atmosphere because the community utterly revolves around campus. Ive been to TCU, and it’s a beautiful campus in a great city, but it’s a totally different experience than a college town.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
The whole thing about them both being 2-3 hours from Kansas City was more to my point.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Do you know where Ames, Iowa and Manhattan, Kansas are?
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
I just looked up how feasible moving the Big 12 CCG to Arrowhead would be in this scenario, but unfortunately the Chiefs are home that evening.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Yes, last year. I meant to say "would have". I think the ASU team that had you on the ropes would have handily beaten the Clemson team that you handily beat.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
The Big 12 will probably have the best last place team of any major conference and the worst first place team. Although after last year's playoffs, it would be interesting to see the Big 12 and ACC champs play. I think ASU would mudholed Clemson.
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
A priest told me once that we don’t pray because God intercedes and gives you what ask for, but rather we pray to help focus ourselves on what’s important to us, in order to help us be better examples of Christ’s love. And I think way more people need to get that message on Sundays.
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Tell me about Nebraska
Maybe he was miserable because huffed nuts his entire tenure there.
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Uniform Pron
I very much enjoyed watching them beat Iowa and KSU
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Uniform Pron
Unless your school is playing them
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Those are my favorites too
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Realignment talk not going away
This would be true had you guys not left the Big 12 as well. TV wanted the power programs more concentrated and that wouldn’t have changed with a Pac 16.
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Realignment talk not going away
It would have failed, for many of the same reasons the Pac 12 failed Thats an insane cultural disparity, and all the shit you guys talk on Big 12 schools applies more so to the Pac schools. Far away places that don’t care anywhere near as much about football. The SEC is the only place it ever made sense for UT and OU to go outside of the Big 12.
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Realignment talk not going away
Still can’t beat Cal and Stanford in the ACC
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
This song is older than Purgatory. One of his many fan favorites that never made it past a terribly recorded YouTube clip
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Your unpopular music opinions
While I completely agree with your general premise, I had a buddy who lived in SoCal for 5 years and somewhere after year 3 got sick and tired of the weather never fucking changing.
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Realignment talk not going away
This seems like a far more logical way of operating. The Big 10 is always going on about their academic consortium, like they can only collaborate with schools that are part of their athletic conference, academically.
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Realignment talk not going away
Seems to me the goal of the Pac was to become the best non-power league and the path to do that was by getting the serious MWC schools on board. Now they’re the only conference besides the MAC to exist solely on the same side of the Mississippi, and have the largest G6 (we have to call it that, right?) fanbases in one spot. I think this is a league that understands their position really well and has put together a compelling product that I’ll be tuning into. Most of the time, the G6 rep will come out of here, I suspect. In hoops, they will be extremely salty and there will be a debate as to whether they’re a high or mid major.
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Realignment talk not going away
Not for some schools. I think it’s utterly moronic to think who you play sports with says anything about your academics, but that’s 100% how Stanford and Cal think, as well as large swaths of the Big 10.
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Tell me about Iowa State
Fuckin’ love Rocco. Dude’s got the winning gene where he just finds ways to make big plays in the crunch. Downside is he’s a little bit of a gunslinger and when he throws picks (which isn’t often) they almost always end up being pick 6s. He’s a very effective runner, although it’s not a cornerstone of his game. As a human being, he seems like a great guy. His teammates love him, and after a town in Iowa had a school shooting in the spring of ‘24, he put on a free camp for the kids there. He’s gonna be 3rd or 4th round guy, and likely have a long career as a backup and elite locker room guy. Then again, there’s a lot of Purdy in his game and maybe he’ll go beyond that.